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Central Bank (National Claims Information Database) Bill 2018: Second Stage (20 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Gabh mo leithscéal. From where is the Minister of State getting that information? He is getting it from the insurance companies. Can he not take away the coppers from his eyes to see that he is being robbed from the inside by the banks and the beef barons? They might not be robbing with guns, but there are always some inside the big cartels. Insurance companies are robbing us blind....

Central Bank (National Claims Information Database) Bill 2018: Second Stage (20 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: That is news to me. They are still being piled on. It is blatantly obvious to me that if the Minister of State had any interest in the job, he would not come up with 58 or 70 recommendations. Two, three or four are required to show respect and offer support, rather than have cosy cartels milking and bleeding people dry and rubbing butter into a fat sow and I will not say where. It is...

Central Bank (National Claims Information Database) Bill 2018: Second Stage (20 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Ar dtús ba mhaith liom buíochas a ghabnáil leis an Teachta Broughan for allowing Deputy Michael Collins and me to speak before him. I appreciate it. The Minister of State has been in the job a couple of years and he published the cost of insurance report, the consideration of which went on for a very long time. The report eventually came up with 50 or 60 recommendations....

Future of the Post Office Network: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I move amendment No. 1:To delete all words after “calls on the Government to” and substitute the following:— act urgently on its commitment as outlined in A Programme for a Partnership Government and on the direction of Dáil Éireann by way of the Rural Independent Group motion which was agreed to by the House on 16th November 2016 and which has to date been...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: With regard to the restoration of town councils, there is a huge disconnect between local government and national government. Only yesterday I received a response from the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, to a parliamentary question about the areas where a county manager or chief executive officer could change reserved functions to executive...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: You would send them all to hell or to Connacht.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Of course you are, for God's sake.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Yes, we have had a lot of them in here, and the HSE.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: It was a rotten deal.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: You drive through it.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners Enforcement Activity (20 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 51. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount paid to Revenue Commissioners sheriffs in poundage fees payments for each of the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38107/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Expenditure (20 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 97. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount paid to county and District Court sheriffs in poundage fees payments for each of the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38106/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Expenditure (20 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 227. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount paid out by each local authority with respect to compensation and insurance claims since 2017, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38066/18]

Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (19 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Ar an gcéad dul síos, ba mhaith liom buíochas a ghabháil le Teachta Clare Daly. I thank Deputy Daly, although she said she did not want any thanks, and her team and the other people she mentioned as well. It is not only this piece of legislation; Deputy Daly has championed many a piece of legislation since coming in here. I worked on one or two of them. We can differ...

Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I am happy to make a few remarks on this very important issue this afternoon. The Scally report has laid bare a scandalous catalogue of failures right across some of the most sensitive areas of health care in this country. The women and the families who have been affected and, in some cases, utterly devastated by these failures are the true heroes of this entire sorry saga and their bravery...

BusConnects: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I note that the motion condemns those involved for the unnecessary anxiety and anger experienced by the public in the past eight weeks since the BusConnects, or bus disconnects, as it has been appropriately described, consultation process commenced. The motion also proposes reversing the culling of bus routes across the Dublin greater area. It is interesting that it is happening in Dublin...

BusConnects: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: He answered the wrong question this morning when he read the wrong answer. When a sportsperson returned to Ireland, he did not know what game she had played, what planet she was on or what medal she had won; it was a case of wrong name, wrong person, sorry. He tweets about something he sees on the RTÉ website. That is wrong; he is wrong.

BusConnects: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Where is he?

BusConnects: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: When friends fall out, they fall out big-time, but he chose to fall out with me. I am just saying this is a farce that he is presiding over. He had the new Luas line and was sulking when the Taoiseach and others decided to open it down the road.

BusConnects: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: The cross-city service could not get across O'Connell Bridge. It blocked the traffic because it was too long. These fellows designed it and, I suppose, they never measured the bridge. They did not care. Giving this amount money to consultants, against which the Minister railed for decades, is anathema to ordinary taxpayers. It is outrageous. The Minister's Department paid AECOM...